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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

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The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. For example, they're implementing new and updated software from IT vendors to handle patient loads, said Cozzolino of Cerner. Twitter: @fbazzoli.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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"In this new normal, digitally frictionless scheduling of imaging studies by patients in the right location for them, at the right time in their care, with the ability to electronically share those images with those they wish, is but one example," he continued. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Departments Need to Plan for Explosive IoMT Growth

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The expected explosion in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) represents both an opportunity and a challenge for healthcare IT departments. IoMT communication patterns “There are parallels that you can draw between the way other industries are managing IoT and what healthcare can use to manage IoMT,” stated Khanna. Billion in 2021.

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HIMSSCast: A pro checks in on the status of the health IT stock market

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For example, MDRX, ATHN and CERN are history. Hospital IT was big 15 years ago around HITECH, of course. Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify or Google Play ! Talking points: His thoughts on the fact that there aren't as many health IT stocks as there used to be? Epic, of course, has always been private.

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Digital from the start: New medical campus to rise in Singapore's east

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To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. "For example, during a tele-consult, doctors can verbally ask if the patients are keeping up with their rehab[ilitation] exercises.

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A closer look at the tech needed for new care-at-home and aging-in-place models

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Healthcare IT News sat down with Shah to discuss health IT's role in aging in place. Healthcare is hard. But if you look at a hospital, it's the place with the best resources for clinical care in our country, for example, the staff, providers, equipment and technology.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

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A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This may seem like an insignificant example.

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